Almost no memory / Lydia Davis

By: Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus Giroux , c1997.Description: 193 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780374102814
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC DAV
Summary: The 51 pastiches in this collection are more experimental than Davis's previous novel, The End of the Story, and short story collection, Break It Down. Ranging in length from a single, six-line sentence ("The Outing") to 29 pages ("Lord Royston's Tour"), the selections explore intense feelings in a variety of situations. Frequently using parallel construction, the pieces reveal how someone facing a minor domestic dispute could contort a conversation into an irredeemable confrontation or could behave unnecessarily obsessively. The emotion is very well conveyed and the use of language apt. Occasionally grotesque, the vignettes will appeal to the sophisticated reader, but the lack of closure may frustrate the more traditional
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The 51 pastiches in this collection are more experimental than Davis's previous novel, The End of the Story, and short story collection, Break It Down. Ranging in length from a single, six-line sentence ("The Outing") to 29 pages ("Lord Royston's Tour"), the selections explore intense feelings in a variety of situations. Frequently using parallel construction, the pieces reveal how someone facing a minor domestic dispute could contort a conversation into an irredeemable confrontation or could behave unnecessarily obsessively. The emotion is very well conveyed and the use of language apt. Occasionally grotesque, the vignettes will appeal to the sophisticated reader, but the lack of closure may frustrate the more traditional

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